2 Kings 25:3-5

Young's Literal Translation

³ on the ninth of the month -- when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,

⁴ then the city is broken up, and all the men of war [go] by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that [are] by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [are] against the city round about, and [the king] goeth the way of the plain.

⁵ And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him;